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Vol. 12, Issue 12, November 17, 2007
Chapleau company receives safety award from OFSWA T
rue North Ti m b e r w a s established in October of 1997 as a local Chapleau logging contractor. Since establishment, the corporation has expanded to near six times its annual work scheduled volume and workforce. It currently employs approximately 100 persons in various capacities including full-time, part-time, sub-contractors, subcontract employees, and phase contractors, and completes an annual work schedule volume of approximately 460,000 Tonnes. Tr u e N o r t h Timber has an established reputation for success both in the industry as well as in safety. Their safety programs have been in place since their establishment ten years ago with
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continual upgrading and improvements being made. The company has been SWO Certified annually since 2002 and has been a part of SWO Safety groups for the past 5 years. In 2005 True North Timber received the Regional Health and Safety Award where 160 logging firms in the district (District F) were evaluated based upon key legislative requirements covered by SWO certification, as well as injury experience over a two year period. In 2006 the corporation was awarded the Provincial C o n t i n u o u s Improvement Award for outstanding achievement in Health and Safety for 2002 2006. This achievement is based upon evaluation of 1,800 firms in Ontario under the same categories as the Regional Award. The award is given to two distinctive groups, the first being to firms with less than 500,000 hours worked, and secondly to firms with more than 500,000 hours worked. Given these hours worked, the successful candidate firm would have significantly improved their total injury frequency and severity rates on a consistent basis. The severity and frequency is calculated by taking the number of injuries in the term multiplied by the hours of work
then divided by a standardized 200,000 work hours for the year. Establishment of this amicable safety record was due to the exceptional efforts of their safety staff, along with the attention and cooperation of all employees of True North Timber. Ryan Saari, CEO for the corporation states “it was not an easy accomplishment, but thanks to the hard work of a lot of people, both managerial and workforce personnel, we are able to keep our
From left to right: Blair Sullivan, Vice-President, Boreal Ontario, Tembec FRM, Ryan Saari, CEO, True North Timber, Ron Martel, General Manager, Tembec FRM Chapleau, Philip Martel, Safety and EMS Coordinator, True North Timber.
work environment as safe as possible. We
look forward to further safety achievements in
the future, for all of our futures.”
Colouring contest winners
T
he Chapleau Volunteer Fire Department
held a colouring contest during fire prevention week. the winners
from the contest were picked up at school in the fire trucks and taken
to Gus’s for a special luncheon and a visit from Sparky.
(Back row left to right): Chief Graham Bertrand, Firefighter Cole Parry, Firefighter Rick Smith, Gus Katsenos, Sparky, Firefighter Bryce Bertrand, Captain Murray Midkiff, Fire Prevention Officer James Apsey. (fr L to R) Nicki Katsenos, Gavin Parry, Patrick St.Amand, Amber-Lila Moreau, Brittany Moreau, Adam St.Germain, Jesse Mclaughlin, and Grayson Cranny. Missing from the photo is firefighter Chad Byce (taking picture). Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to the winners. A special thanks to Gus and Nicki for helping to make our lunch a success.